@charlesesmith

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Former podcast host with over a dozen listeners. Computer nerd, book nerd, Star Wars|Trek|Gate, Marvel, DC, etc. Motorcycle enthusiast on a budget. Very nearly amatuer guitar player. Video games when there is enough time. Professional hobby starter?
"Got it. We'll tune your recommendations." Uh huh, see you again in a few weeks when after never engaging with this whatsoever I click away from this for the millionth time.
@TheBreadmonkey more insidious when you already were paying for a plan that didn’t have ads and then they put ads in and you have to pay more to remove them.
@dmoren @Gte phones can be confusing
Such a treat to use Claude Code and @obsidian to get my library out of Goodreads.

I’ll never forgive the median American voter for electing Trump a second time.

Including the people who didn’t vote.

New video on #enshittification by the Norwegian Consumer Council:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ

Good job, @pluralistic - awareness is spreading!

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council ha...

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@danielpunkass Tie that with “and yeah they are fighting us because we don't want our tech used for autonomous murdering" and I am guessing their PR department is having a chill weekend.

I read this as foreign mass surveillance and supervised killing is just fine. Such courage.

https://notdivided.org

Everybody is (understandably) very excited that Anthropic isn't selling their AI for Hegseth to use to automate his war crimes. But I would gently suggest that we not accept setting the bar quite so low. https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/27/a-cookie-for-dario/
A Cookie for Dario? — Anthropic and selling death

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